Next Article in Journal
Hybrid Drying of Murraya koenigii Leaves: Energy Consumption, Antioxidant Capacity, Profiling of Volatile Compounds and Quality Studies
Next Article in Special Issue
Numerical Analysis on Velocity and Temperature of the Fluid in a Blast Furnace Main Trough
Previous Article in Journal
Structural Optimization of Alkylbenzenes as Graphene Dispersants
Previous Article in Special Issue
Numerical Study of Binary Trickle Flow of Liquid Iron and Molten Slag in Coke Bed by Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
 
 
Article
Peer-Review Record

A Mathematical Model Combined with Radar Data for Bell-Less Charging of a Blast Furnace

Processes 2020, 8(2), 239; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr8020239
by Meng Li 1, Han Wei 1, Yao Ge 1, Guocai Xiao 2 and Yaowei Yu 1,*
Reviewer 1: Anonymous
Reviewer 2: Anonymous
Processes 2020, 8(2), 239; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr8020239
Submission received: 8 December 2019 / Revised: 16 February 2020 / Accepted: 17 February 2020 / Published: 20 February 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Process Modeling in Pyrometallurgical Engineering)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The authors combined radar measurements and a mathematical model of
blast furnace charging  to control gas distribution and improve energy efficiency of the process.

The paper is well written, data supports the conclusions about the hypothesis.

In my opinion in lines 231-233 the authors should extensively describe how the K nearest neighbor algorithm has been used to remove the noise points in radar data and how Delaunay algorithm was used to
triangulate the point cloud and compress the feature extraction to 2D burden profile.

It is not so clear the discussion about the test of the sensitivity of the mathematical model used in my opinion the authors should expand lines 327-328 exhaustively to supports the conclusions

 

 

 

Author Response

Please see the attachment.

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Reviewer 2 Report

The authors have conducted mathematical modelling of bell-less charging of blast furnace. The following comments should be addressed before manuscript is accepted for publication:

The authors have specified two models - charging and evaluation. In later sections, they just specified "Model". Which model are they referring to? What is the specifics of the model? Which software was used for coding and what are the assumptions. These data seem to be missing. The authors should conduct detailed literature review. Several important references are missing such as: Metals 20177(3), 83.

Author Response

Please see the attachment.

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Back to TopTop